Example sentences of "be taken for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dent , with its narrow cobbled main street and its white buildings , could almost be taken for a Westmorland village , whereas West Burton , by-passed by the Bishopdale road and standing with its houses clustered round a broad wedge of a village green with cross , stocks and children 's swings , is very much a village of the eastern Dales . |
| 2 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 3 | Harvey said , ‘ You said projecting ears , bad teeth , long hair , sounded like an Englishman who wanted to be taken for a Yank , bad breath . |
| 4 | A stuck-up snob , hoping to be taken for a member of the ‘ upper class ’ having carefully studied Nancy Mitford 's Noblesse Oblige , will remain silent . |
| 5 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 6 | If he was n't careful , it might be taken for a bid , Mungo thought . |
| 7 | Now I think he 's considerably less likely to be taken for a ride . ’ |
| 8 | NSAIDs had to be taken for a minimum of four weeks before endoscopy . |
| 9 | I 'm about as much on my own here as a man with a dog that wants to be taken for a walk . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm bound to be taken for the chauffeur , ’ he laughed out , mispronouncing the word with relish but he was not corrected as he hoped . |
| 11 | Under it , the member paid part of the debt and costs to be taken for the debt and costs in the action . |
| 12 | it may be flattering to be taken for the head of the firm if you are not , but it is not good business , and sound progress can not be made with anyone on a false footing , in fact , it must be obvious that the greater the respect you hold and encourage towards any of your seniors , the better the position they will be in to assist you in any difficulties which may arise . |
| 13 | Reasonable care must be taken for the employee 's safety ( Latimer v AEC [ 1953 ] AC 643 . |
| 14 | He had already accepted the need for reunion of churches in South India and agreed with Archbishop Michael Ramsey 's view that risks should be taken for the sake of Gospel . |
| 15 | Insurance companies understandably expect proper precautions to be taken for the security and safe storage of musical instruments . |
| 16 | Where the terrain becomes so steep that the leader no longer has a reasonable likelihood of controlling a slide , then belays of some form should be taken for the seconds . |
| 17 | A person who has been admitted as a solicitor and whose name is on the roll shall , if he would not otherwise be taken to be acting as a solicitor , be taken for the purposes of this Act to be so acting [ and therefore being required to hold a practising certificate ] if he is employed in connection with the provision of any legal services ( a ) by any person who is qualified to act as a solicitor ; ( b ) by any partnership at least one member of which is so qualified ; or ( c ) by a body recognised by the Council of the Law Society under section 9 of the Administration of Justice Act 1985 ( incorporated practices ) . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't like to be taken for an idiot . |
| 19 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |